Chapter 520 Report to the Song Dynasty, the King of Oblique Protection is amazing! Ask for a monthly ticket)
"The King of Rome in the West?" Li Renxiao frowned when he heard this "The King of Rome in the World" and asked, "Is it the King of the Slightly Fortress who sent him to pay tribute to us?"
It turned out that Li Renxiao knew that Wanyan Xiebao had become the head of the Roman Empire, the first citizen, Caesar, etc. Because the titles were too long and they were all named in Greek and Latin. The Western Tang Dynasty didn't understand what the meaning was, so he simply gave Xiebao another title, called "King of Heaven".
"It was not sent by the King of Xiebao," Prime Minister Cao smiled, "This King of Yi-Shoulder is the opponent of the King of Xiebao, and he is the son of the previous Roman King."
"Son?" Li Renxiao was stunned, "How can his son be 'shoulder side by side' with his father? This is unfilial!"
Prime Minister Cao smiled and said, "They are all the rules in the West. They do not read the books of sages. No matter what filial or not, their crown prince is called the 'One-word King'. Sometimes the monarch's wife or husband is also named the One-word King."
The level of this translated translator Cao is really good. The future crown prince of Britain may be called the king of England in one word.
"Oh, so that's it." Li Renxiao nodded, "Since this Roman king is the opponent of the King of Eclipse and Protect, should we take him into the prison car and send him to the Junbao Castle?"
"No need." Prime Minister Cao shook his head with a smile.
Li Renxiao smiled and said, "With the grandfather's intention, did you kill this Roman king in Chang'an, one by one?"
If Alexus heard this, he would definitely regret that he would die and ask for help. What kind of Tang Dynasty is coming!
The Tang Dynasty and Wanyan Xibao are just wearing pairs of pants!
It turns out that there are some contradictions between Wanyan Xiebao and the Western Tang Dynasty, but it is far from being broken up. Not only did it not break up, but the two sides also maintained a very strong alliance. The support of the Western Tang Dynasty was actually an important reason why Wanyan Xiebao became the Roman king!
The reason why the Western Tang Dynasty supported Xibao was to open up the Silk Road on land. For the Western Tang Dynasty, which was based in Central Asia, was there anything more important than opening up the Silk Road?
Moreover, opening up the Silk Road was not only a simple matter for the Western Tang Dynasty, but it would produce gunpowder before moving westward. After moving westward, it learned from the pain and placed gunpowder production at a height that determines the survival of the country.
After more than ten years of continuous efforts, the gunpowder output in the Western Tang Dynasty is now very high, and the quality of the fire and sulfur they extract is good. Although they have not mastered the secret of gunpowder granulation, they can already mix gunpowder and light oil to create a combustion bomb. The granular gunpowder is just a layer of paper!
The gunpowder produced in large quantities must not be left to be damp. Although the Western Tang Dynasty and the Seljuk Turks are constantly conflicting, the scale of the war between the two sides is not large and there is no chance to use gunpowder in large quantities.
So the Western Tang Dynasty became an arms dealer and threw the gunpowder they produced to Wanyan Xibao at a high price.
Because of the interests of the Silk Road and arms transactions, Wanyan Xiebao became the closest ally of the Western Tang Dynasty. The Roman king Alexus asked the Western Tang Dynasty for help to oppose Wanyan Xiebao, which was simply a desperate situation.
"There is no need to kill him," Prime Minister Cao shook his head, "He came so far away to pay tribute to us, and it is not appropriate to kill him with one sword. Besides, Master Bagration from the Kingdom of Glu came with him. This Master Ba is a royal family of the Kingdom of Glu, and a great monk and master worshipping the Church of God. We should give him some face."
Georgia and the Tang Dynasty are across the sea, which is an important part of the Silk Road. Although caravans traveling west can also go to the northern part of the Caspian Sea and enter the Crim Peninsula through the Alan Kingdom. However, this road in Georgia is also very important and cannot be lost.
"Then send him back." Li Renxiao said, "Is this OK?"
"Not even possible." Prime Minister Cao still objected.
Li Renli was a little unhappy, "This is not OK, that is not OK, what exactly should I do?"
Prime Minister Cao smiled and said, "The old minister and the emperor's uncle, the regent have discussed it."
When he mentioned "the emperor's uncle, the regent", Li Inhyo's face looked a little ugly. Because Li In-ri was not his uncle at all, they were all brothers of the "Ren" generation!
However, Li Inhyeon's mother, Empress Dowager Cao, promoted Li Inhyeon to a generation and also named him the emperor's uncle, the regent. What the Empress Dowager Cao did was to make a "replacement marriage" with Li Inhyeon!
Although the Western Tang Dynasty regarded itself as the Tang Dynasty in its own country and implemented the etiquette of the Central Plains, it encouraged to transfer houses, that is, to take over and take over marriage.
Of course, the reason is to increase the number of Tang people as quickly as possible. The Western Tang Dynasty lacked people! The Tang people's nationality was only more than one million, which was equivalent to the land they occupied, which was too little.
Therefore, the widowed thing is not allowed to be a widowed woman of the Tang Dynasty’s childbearing age!
However, it is expressly prohibited to take the marriage of a son to take the stepmother or a nephew to take the stepmother, or an aunt to take the stepmother.
Therefore, Li In-li became Li In-hye’s uncle, and then took over the empress dowager legitimately and added two pink and tender siblings to Li In-hye!
However, Li In-hyo had no choice but to deal with Li In-li and his mother not only because he had not taken power, but also because the Western Tang Dynasty was not a country with centralized monarchs. Li In-hyo had his own fiefdom, castle and retainers. If Li In-hyo dared to touch him, Li In-hyo's retainers might have rebelled with his son.
Besides, the Western Tang Dynasty nobles with fiefs, castles and retainers were not Li Renli. If you kill Li Renli, no one else can let the rabbit die and the fox be sad?
You, Li Renxiao, even kills such a close cousin and stepfather, and then others don’t have such a good relationship with you and have never served your mother. Wouldn’t it be even more dangerous?
Prime Minister Cao took a breath and then said, "We both think that we should send someone to send Rome's one-word king Alexus to the Shuntian Mansion of Beijing in the Song Dynasty, and ask him to ask the officials of the Song Dynasty in person."
"Ceek for help from the Song Dynasty?" Li Renxiao frowned and snorted, "They are not good people!"
Zhao Kai, the official of the Song Dynasty, was an unkind and unrighteous tyrant! He sent troops to Lingxia and forced the Tang Dynasty to move westward. He is still in a state of great difficulty. He sent troops to Xizhou (Hami) and Gaochang, and also sent armed Confucian scholars to Shule, Kucha and Khotan to establish Confucian schools.
These Confucian schools are schools on the surface, but in fact they are armed colonial sites. The Western Tang Dynasty was very vast, but the population was too small, especially the number of people in the Tang Dynasty, so the Western Tang Dynasty was a large area, but in fact they were isolated sites.
Moreover, these isolated points were not governed by militant officials sent by the Tang Dynasty, but were autonomous by military aristocracy. These military aristocracy far from Chang'an Prefecture in Xijing were very welcome to Confucian schools. Because these schools could not only help them educate their children, but also educate the local people in the Western Regions.
However, for the Tang Dynasty court in Chang'an Prefecture, the infiltration of these Confucian schools will undoubtedly cause the centrifugation of Shule, Kucha, Khotan, Xizhou, Gaochang and other towns in the eastern part of the Tang Dynasty.
However, the Western Tang Dynasty did not dare to break up with the Song Dynasty to start a war, so it could only adopt a policy of retreating further westward migration. The Tang people from Shule, Kucha, Khotan, Xizhou, Gaochang and other places moved to the western foothills of the Tianshan Mountains and the Qincha grasslands one after another.
In order to resettle these immigrants, the Western Tang Dynasty also established Luocheng Prefecture (Tashkent was renamed Luocheng) around Tashkent City on the north bank of the Huzhang River, Xiping Prefecture was established in Khwarezm Oasis, and Xingqing Prefecture was established between the northern foot of Yidu Mountain (which belongs to the Tianshan Mountains) and the Yili River (the area around Almaty in later generations).
Although there are places where the Western Tang Dynasty can run away, it is always very unhappy to be forced by the Song Dynasty.
What's more, Li Renxiao didn't know that he was Dangxiang, and he thought he was Li Yuan and the descendant of Li Shimin!
The orthodox Tang Dynasty was forced to do this by the Zhao Song Dynasty. Not only was it impossible to gain a foothold in the Central Plains ancestral land, but even the three towns on the east side of the four Anxi towns could not stay well. Why isn't it annoying?
"It is precisely because the Song State is not a good person that we should send the Roman king to see Zhao Kai." Prime Minister Cao was not good at explaining the truth to Li Renxiao, so he had to find another explanation, "We have to let Zhao Kai know that his mortal enemy, the Jin people, have not yet completed the fortune. This Western Roman country is a great country! It has a vast land of 10,000 miles and a population of 20 million. It has been a dominant Western power since ancient times! It was broken by Xibao only because there was no gunpowder, hot pot, and bullet tube. Now Xibao not only brought gunpowder, hot pot, bullet tube, but also entered the Western Church of God and became the priest John. Therefore, he was supported by the Romans and was elected as the Roman King.
If it were time to go, the eastern and western Roman tribes would be able to unify the eastern and western Roman tribes. At that time, he would lead the Roman troops to fight the Song Dynasty in the east to repay the hatred of the demise of his homeland!”
Prime Minister Cao was completely nonsense. Eastern Rome was just a little territory, and there was 10,000 miles there? The population was not 20 million, and at most 10 million. Moreover, in the 12th century, most of the people under the Eastern Roman Empire were obedient people who could not join the army and fight. They basically relied on foreign mercenaries to fight. Even if Wanyan Xie retained some gunpowder weapons, it was impossible to rely on them to unify East and West Rome, let alone lead the Roman troops to attack the Song Dynasty in the east.
When Li Renxiao heard what Prime Minister Cao said, his brows frowned even more, "Grandfather, is Xibao Tianwang really that powerful? Then we can't sell gunpowder to him. He wants to send Roman troops to attack Song, so he must fight us here! This fake Taoist destruction of Guo is not rare."
Chapter completed!